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Old 01-10-2015, 05:47 AM   #229
Cassidy
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Default Re: LSM's Etymological Errors - Nigel Tomes

Awareness> The central point? Could you please point it out to me, if it's not too much trouble.....

Sure. Tomes talks a few times about the revolution 50 years ago, the reconstruction of biblical linguistics, and that before that everything was prone to error.... meaning that from that point forward everything else was hunky dory according to Tomes.

Furthermore, Dr. Tomes refers to James Barr work as "landmark".. "This seismic change in the analysis of biblical languages is not a recent development. It began over 50-years ago with the publication of Prof. James Barr’s, Semantics of Biblical Language (Oxford Univ. Press, 1961). Dr. Barr’s landmark study amounted to “a reconstruction of descriptive biblical linguistics.”40 Barr’s book “shook the foundations of…word studies, most notably the TDNT,”

Barr's views included "
It is absolutely certain that 2 Tim 3:16 cannot be taken as a clearly delimited definition of the unique inspiration of the 66 books of the modern Protestant canon"

Landmark? Maybe. But what kind and why is Tomes advancing these teachings? Because he wants to disagree with Witness Lee and any contrary teaching will do? Or he really believes that stuff?

I'd say both.

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